Heavy Crossbow is a Weapon in Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered. Heavy Crossbow, a powerful large crossbow with high base damage that cannot be upgraded along Chaos or Raw paths. Crossbows are powerful ranged weapons that fire bolts, capable of high base damage and devastating headshots, though they lack the zoom function of bows. With no stat scaling, their effectiveness relies on elemental upgrades. They can also be fired instantly at close range for melee utility.
Powerful large crossbow. While bows require both hands, a crossbow is held in one, but arming each bolt takes time."
How to Get / Where to Find the Heavy Crossbow in Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered
Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered Dark Souls Heavy Crossbow Notes
- Can not be ascended to Chaos or Raw Weapon.
- Give to Frampt to receive 50 souls.
- The Heavy Crossbow is a weapon with very low stat requirements. Its best use is usually found when upgraded along the normal path to +15 and combined with Heavy Bolts as ammunition. A successful strike will stagger most player opponents unless they have extremely high poise. This makes the heavy crossbow particularly effective against mages, who tend to have average-to-low poise as well as the need to stand still while casting spells, and hence can be staggered out of their spell cast animations with a single heavy bolt. It is also very useful for players with higher encumbrance who have difficulty pursuing faster enemies, as it deals significant damage to fleeing opponents if a bolt strikes them in the back. Importantly, the bolts deal thrust damage and therefore benefit from the Leo Ring's bonus to thrust counter damage, making it a very effective and dangerous counter-attack weapon particularly if used off-hand to surprise opponents in general melee. The counter bonus also applies to attacks from computer mobs and bosses, making the heavy crossbow very useful in PvE situations, and can stack with various other damage buffs such as Power Within or the Red Tearstone Ring. Although the range of the heavy crossbow is listed as 50, it continues to deal significant damage even at longer range if the player free aims and arcs bolts down onto the target, permitting the player to aggro or simply kill computer opponents from well beyond their normal aggro range. Heavy bolts are also fairly common and inexpensive, and are available from numerous NPC shopkeepers including the Anor Londo giant, and Marvelous Chester.
- Wearing the Hawk Ring and using Standard Bolts, it is possible to kill a Royal Sentinel with +10 Heavy crossbow with only 9 shots outside their aggro range, making it a safe, decent tactic to farm Titanite Chunks.
Heavy Crossbow Upgrade Table in Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered
